Summing Up No. 02 AKA Summing Up - Fourth… 1946

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SUMMING UP - A Quarterly Chronicle of Current Events. Historical Adviser - A.L. Rowse, All Souls College, Oxford. Fourth Quarter 1946."

International co-operation in the Alps. Men of 6 nations launch a search after an American airliner crashed into a glacier. Rescue of survivors. United Nations...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
70980
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:22:33:00 / 01:32:14:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
1671.03
Issue Date:
1946

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